¤¤¤å¤º¤å


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

(ONIX for Books)

41 2 (December 2003) 219-235 2 1 9

1971 (Project Gutenberg)

(light literature)

( 1 )

( d e v i c e - i n d e p e n d e n t ) A d o b e

A c r o b a t M i c r o s o f t  R e a d e r  f i l e ( d e v i c e -



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

41 2 (December 2003)2 2 0

dependent) ( 2)

E D I t E U R

O N I X ( O N l i n e  I n f o r m a t i o n  e X c h a n g e )

O e B F ( O p e n  e B o o k  F o r u m ) O p e n  e B o o k  P u b l i c a t i o n  S t r u c t u r e

1.2(OEBPS) ( 3) ONIX

O N I X

( Ingram Bowker)

( 4) 

1 9 9 9 7 ( A s s o c i a t i o n  o f  A m e r i c a n  P u b l i s h e r s ,  

A A P ) 6 0

2000 AAP ONIX ( 5)

ONIX ONline Information eXchange( ) ONIX

O N I X E D I ( E u r o p e a n  E D I  g r o u p ,

EDItEUR) (Book Industry Study Group, BISG)

(Book Industry Communication, BIC) EDItEUR

O N I X ( 6 ) B I C B I S G

( P u b l i s h e r s  A s s o c i a t i o n ) ( T h e

Booksellers Association) (The Library Association)

(The British Library)

( 7) EDItEUR

B I S G

AAP ONIX ( 8)



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

2 2 1

ONIX_IMPLEMENT

ONIX ONIX

( 9)

ONIX EDItEUR EPICS (EDItEUR Product

I n f o r m a t i o n  C o m m u n i c a t i o n  S t a n d a r d s ) ( 1 0 ) E P I C S

( I n t e r o p e r a b i l i t y  o f  D a t a  i n  E -

Commerce Systems, INDECS) INDECS

E D I t E U R D O I ( I n t e r n a t i o n a l  D O I

Foundation, IDF) ( 11)

ONIX 1.2 2000 11 1.2.1 2001 7 1 2.0

2001 7 25 2.0 8 2 2003 6 ONIX for

Books 2.1 ONIX ( 12)

2.0 ( 13)

1. ( )

2.

3. series subseries ONIX

series / subseries ONIX

4.

5.

2 . 1

XHTML Website (composite)

Title

( 14)

O N I X

O N I X O N I X X M L

XML DTD



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

41 2 (December 2003)2 2 2

( 15) (product form code) ( 1)

( 16)

ONIX Level 1 Level 2 Level 1

( X M L  R e f e r e n c e

Name) Level 2

(tag)

( p r o d u c t  n u m b e r s ) 2

PR2.1 PR2.6

PR2.1 PR2.6 Level 1

<ProductIdentifier> PR.2.7 Product identifier

t y p e  c o d e P R . 2 . 9  I d e n t i f i e r  v a l u e

PR.2.7 3 PR.2.7

01 PR.2.8 Identifier type name

</ProductIdentifier>

EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX Product Information Message: Product
Record Format, v2.1, June 2003, p.20, <http://www.editeur.org/onifiles
2.1/ONIX%202.1%20package%20linked.zip> (19 Nov. 2003).



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

2 2 3

<ProductIdentifier>

<ProductIDType>02</ProductIDType>

02 ISBN

<IDValue>8474339790</IDValue>

ISBN

</ProductIdentifier>

EDItEUR, BISG, BIC ONIX Code Lists, Issue 1 (London, UK: EDItEUR, 2003), p7,
<http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/ONIX%202.1% 20package%20linked.zip> (13
May 2003)

3  ONIX Code Lists Issue 1 List 5: Product identifier type code

EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX Product Information Message: Product Record
Format, v2.1 June 2003, pp.16-19, <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/
ONIX%202.1%20package%20 linked.zip> (19 Nov. 2003).

2  ONIX Product Information



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

41 2 (December 2003)2 2 4

( <ProductIdentifier></ProductIdentifier> )

ONIX Level 2 EDItEUR

Level 1 Level 2 EDItEUR Level 2

2 . 1 ( d e p r e c a t e ) P R . 2 . 1

PR.2.6 PR.2.7

P R . 2 . 9 ( n e w )

UK only US only Europe only

Class of trade

ONIX for Books 2.1 XML (message specification)

(product record specification) (main series record

specification) (subseries record specification)

( 17)

ONIX XML (start of message)

XML ONIX

(header block) (the body of the message)

(the end of message)

ONIX ( 18)



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

2 2 5

<header> (packaged)

(sender)

(addressee)

EAN( 19) SAN( 20)

4 /

Level 1

EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX Product Information Message: Product Record Format,
v2.1 June 2003, pp.6-12, <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/ONIX%202.1%20package% 
20linked.zip> (19 Nov. 2003)

4 ONIX 2.1 Message header



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

41 2 (December 2003)2 2 6

ONIX /

(series detail)

ONIX

XML

<product> </product>

250 25 ( 21)

/

(multi-level series/subseries)

Group structure of an ONIX Product record,"Graphical view of the ONIX DTD Release
2.1 [Revision 01], <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/ONIX%202.1%20Revision%
2001% 20DTDs.zip> (20 Nov. 2003).



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

2 2 7

ONIX for Books 2.0

ONIX ( 22)

7 2 ( 2 3 ) M S . 1 M S . 6

MS.7

/ (collection)

ONIX for

B o o k s 2 . 0

ONIX ( 24)

8 ( 25) SS.3 SS.8

ONIX Main Series record outline structure, Graphical view of the ONIX DTD Release 2.1
[Revision 01], <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/ ONIX%202.1%20Revision%
2001%20DTDs.zip> (20 Nov. 2003).

2 ONIX



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

41 2 (December 2003)2 2 8

SS.3 SS.8

O N I X ( 26) 

ONIX International

(aggregators)

ONIX Subseries record outline structure, Graphical view of the ONIX DTD Release 2.1
[Revision 01], <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/ONIX%202.1%20Revision%2001%
20DTDs.zip> (20 Nov. 2003).

3 ONIX



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

2 2 9

O N I X A m a z o n B N . c o m

(Barnes & Noble)

ONIX ONIX

ONIX

ONIX

ONIX

O C L C 2 0 0 1 9 O N I X

M A R C Wo r l d C a t O C L C

(ORACLE) MARC Dublin Core

ONIX

O N I X D i g i t a l  O b j e c t  I d e n t i f i e r (

DOI) DOI (International DOI Foundation IDF) ONIX

DOI

E P I C S O N I X

ONIX

2 0 0 3 1 2 6 ( N a t i o n a l  I n f o r m a t i o n  S t a n d a r d s

Organization NISO) EDItEUR ALA Midwinter Conference ONIX

for Books ONIX ONIX for Serials ( 27)

( 28)

O N I X

O N I X M A R C

(availability)

( 29)

B I C O N I X

( L i b r a r y  o f  C o n g r e s s ,  L C ) O N I X

M A R C ( B r i t i s h  N a t i o n a l  B i b l i o g r a p h y

Research Fund, BNBRF) ONIX

LC ONIX (Cataloging in Publication

CIP) ( 30)

M A R C O N I X L C 2 0 0 0 1 1 O N I X

MARC21 ( 31) ONIX1.2 OCLC Bob Pearson

M A R C 2 1 O N I X ( 3 2 ) U N I M A R C A l a n

Danskin ONIX UNIMARC ( 33) Danskin



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

41 2 (December 2003)2 3 0

( 34)

B I C O N I X

(American Library Association, ALA) ONIX

B I C O N I X B u r t o n 4 2

18 16 8

ONIX ( 35)

BIC ( 36) ONIX

ONIX ONIX

ONIX XML

( ) ONIX

2001 12 CC:DA( 37) ONIX

( f i n a l  r e p o r t ) O N I X 1 . 2 . 1 ( 3 8 )

O N I X ( A A C R 2 ,

MARC 21)

O N I X

Amazon.com Barnes & Noble

O N I X O N I X L C

OCLC ONIX MARC

A A C R 2 O N I X I F L A  F R B R ( F u n c t i o n a l

Requirements for Bibliographic Records) PCC(Program

for Cooperative Cataloging) ONIX

CC:DA ONIX

Pearson ONIX MARC21 ( 39)

OCLC



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

2 3 1

BIC ALA 2002

BIC ONIX (SIMONE) SIMONE the Simple

O N I X  E d i t i o n  To o l O N I X

ONIX

( 40)

L C ( T h e  B i b l i o g r a p h i c  E n r i c h m e n t  A d v i s o r y  Te a m

BEAT) TOC(Table of Contents) TOC

O PA C TO C O PA C

TO C O N I X ( 4 1 ) 2 0 0 3 1

Wiley 33,894 ONIX TOC( 42)

O N I X

1.ONIX Level 2

2 . O N I X O N I X D C

3.ONIX ONIX

4 . O N I X

ONIX EDItEUR BISG BIC

ONIX

5 . O N I X

SIMONE NetRead Book Data Whitaker MUZE

ONIX

ONIX

6.ONIX DOI <indecs> NISO

ONIX ONIX

ONIX MARC



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

41 2 (December 2003)2 3 2

1 . O N I X

2 . O N I X O PA C L C

BEAT ONIX TOC ONIX

OCLC RLG

O N I X We b PA C

ONIX

( 43)

3 . O N I X

( 4 4 ) O C L C L C O N I X M A R C

OCLC ONIX MARC

ONIX

MARC

ONIX

4 . O N I X

ALA ONIX

OCLC ( 45)

5.BIC 42 ONIX

ONIX MARC

ONIX

ONIX International

ONIX

ONIX ONIX

1 5

3( 88 3 ) 32-33

2 47( 90 1 ) 1-9 <http://public.ptl.

edu.tw/publish/suyan/47/1.htm>(2003 3 3 )



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

2 3 3

3 OeBF, Open eBook Publication Structure, 27 August 2002;

<http://www.openebook.org/oebps/ oebps1.2/download/oeb12-xhtml.htm>(3 March 2003).

4 BISG, FAQ s About ONIX, <http://www.bisg.org/onix_faq.html>(3 March 2003).

5 EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX Product Information Release 2.0: Overview and Summary List of

Data Elements, 2 August 2001, 

<http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.0/ONIXProductInformationOverview2.0.pdf >(3 March 2003).

6 European EDI group, EDItEUR, <http://www.editeur.org/>(3 March 2003).

7 Book Industry Communication, BIC, <http://www.bic.org.uk/>(23 March 2003).

8 Book Industry Study Group, BISG, <http://www.bisg.org/>(23 March 2003).

9 ONIX_IMPLEMENT, <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ONIX_IMPLEMENT/join>(3 Nov. 2003).

10 Norm Medeiros, Metadata for e-commerce: the ONIX International standard, OCLC Systems &

Services, 17 3 (2001) 114-115.

11 <the indecs project>, <http://www.indecs.org/project.htm> (23 March 2003)

12 EDItEUR, ONIX for books: Latest release: Release 2.1,

<http://www.editeur.org/onix.html> (7 June 2003).

13 5

14 12

15 10

16 EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX Product Information Message: Product Record Format , v2.1 June

2003, p.20, <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/ONIX%202.1%20package%20linked.zip> (13 May 2003).

17 EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX for Books: Product Information Message Release 2.1 Download

XML DTD and documentation,

<http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/prodinf%202.1.html>(7 June 2003).

18 EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX product information guidelines release 2.0. XML message specifi-

cation, 8 August 2001, p4, <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.0/ONIXProductInformationMessage2.0.pdf> (3

October 2003). 

19 EAN European Article Numbering EAN International 900,000

UCC (Uniform Code Council) EAN.UCC

ONIX EAN.UCC-13 standard numbering structure (EAN ) 13 EAN.UCC

(prefix) <http://www.ean-int.org/>

20 SAN Standard Address Number 7

[ANSI/NISO Z39.43-1993.] <http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/san/san-history.asp>

21 16 1

22 EDItEUR, BISG, and BIC, ONIX Product Information Guidelines Release 2.0 <MainSeries>

record, v2.0, July 2001, <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.0/ONIXMainSeriesRecord2.0.pdf> (3 October 2003).

23 EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX for Books Production Information Message: Main Series Record

Format, v2.1 June 2003, pp.3-10, <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/ONIX%202.1%20package%20linked.zip>

(13 May 2003).

24 EDItEUR, BISG and BIC ONIX Product Information Guidelines Release 2.0: <SubSeries> record,

v2.0, July 2001, <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.0/ONIXSubSeriesRecord2.0.pdf> (3 October 2003).

25 EDItEUR, BISG and BIC, ONIX for Books: Production Information Message Sub Series Record

Format, v2.1 June 2003, pp3-10, <http://www.editeur.org/onixfiles2.1/ONIX%202.1%20package%20linked.zip>

(13 May 2003).

26 ALA(Committe on Cataloging Description and Access, CC DA), Task Force on ONIX

International, 29 January 2001 <http://archive.ala.org/alcts/organization/ccs/ccda/tf-onix1.html>(3 March 2003).

27 National Information Standards Organization, ONIX: What Is In It for Libraries? 4 March 2003,

<http://www.niso.org/presentations/ONIX-pres.html> (24 May 2003).

28 National Information Standards Organization, NISO/EDItEUR Program at ALA Midwinter: January



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

41 2 (December 2003)2 3 4

26, 2003, 7 January 2003, <http://www.niso.org/news/releases/pr-NISO-EDItEUR.html> (24 Nov. 2003).

29 B. Green and B. Persing, Using the ONIX standard to manage serials, Serials Librarian, 42 3/4

(2002) 235.

30 29

31 Library of Congress, ONIX to MARC 21 Mapping, 31 Nov. 2000, 

<http://www.loc.gov/marc/ onix2marc.html> (3 March 2003).

32 Bob Pearson, ONIX/MARC21 mapping,

<http://www.editeur.org/ONIX_MARC_Mapping_ External.doc> (3 March 2003).

33 Alan Danskin, Report on an ONIX UNIMARC crosswalk,

<http://www.bic.org.uk/reporton.doc>(3 March 2003).

34 C. Burton, ONIX for libraries: An investigation into the feasibility of using ONIX International as a

standard for bibliographic data transmission between the book trade and libraries in the UK, August 2001, p.2, 

<http://www.bic.org.uk/onixlibrep.doc>(3 March 2003).

35 34 3-4

36 34 1

37 CC:DA ALA (Association for Library Collections and Technical

Services, ALCTS) (Cataloging and Classification Section)

(Committee on Cataloging Description and Access, CC DA)

38 26

39 32

40 The British Library unveils bibliographic editing tool, Information Today, 19 7 (Jul/Aug 2002) 34.

41 BEAT Home Page, 19 May 2003, <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/beat/>(23 May 2003).

42 David Williamson, ONIX: What s in It for Libraries? The Technical Services Angle, 26 Jan. 2003, 

<http://www.niso.org/presentations/DavidW.ppt>(23 May 2003).

43 M. H. Needleman, ONIX(Online Information Exchange), Serials Review, 27 3/4(2001) 104.

44 34 1

45 26



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

A Study of ONIX for Books

Abstract
Since the Internet has grown as a popular place to buy books, the publishers need badly
a standard format that can use to distribute electronic information about their books to
wholesale and retail booksellers, and anyone else involved in the sale of books. ONIX,
stands for Online Information eXchange, is one of such standard formats. This article
describes the background and development of ONIX, also explores the library's role in
the mapping from ONIX to MARC.

Keywords : ONIX; Metadata standard; Ebook standard

Ho-chin Chen
Associate Professor
E-mail chin@mail.tku.edu.tw

Hui Ou-Yang
Graduate Student
Department of Information & Library Science, Tamkang University
Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
E-mail 691070014@s91.tku.edu.tw

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J o u r n a l  o f  E d u c a t i o n a l  M e d i a  &  L i b r a r y  S c i e n c e s ,  4 1 : 2  ( S e p t e m b e r  2 0 0 3 ) : 0 0 0 - 0 0 02 3 6